WAMC/advice cGPA 3.48 510

[mrworldwide1]

1. cGPA 3.48 sGPA 3.43 decent upward trend (3.2 / 3.4 / 3.6 / 3.8)
2. 510
3. CA
4. ORM white male
5. State school
6. 2570 paid clinical (EMT) 180 volunteer clinical
7. 100 research no productivity
8. 60 ER 20 ICU
9. Non clinical volunteering 100 (eventually turned into a part time job for a total of 300)
10. 2000 hours non clinical work (maybe an x factor as it is an uncommon first responder job)
    Not sure if this would be included but spent a 4 months of my gap year traveling
    200 hours TA

My big question is what to do from my MCAT date in March and during the application cycle. I’m starting a new full time clinical job that I enjoy and plan to continue. That leaves me the opportunity to either pursue a research position or boost up non clinical volunteer hours and am uncertain which would be a better use of my time.

School list: very unsure but happy with either DO or MD mainly interested in EM or IM

Touro LV, PNWOM, OHSU, Colorado, UC’s, PCOM, RVCOM, MSUCOM, Tulane, UVM,

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[Mr.Smile12]

Boost your non-clinical community orientation hours to 150 before submitting your application. Specifically, food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You don't tell us what you are doing, so I suspect you aren't doing any of those activities.

Also your clinical experience needs more variety than just emergent medicine. I guess ICU is "less" emergent, but some regular primary care experiences and maybe another speciality will round out your clinical insights a bit.

How is your 2000 hours of being a first responder different than the 2570 EMT hours?

 

[mrworldwide1]

Boost your non-clinical community orientation hours to 150 before submitting your application. Specifically, food distribution, shelter volunteer, job/tax preparation, transportation services, or housing rehabilitation. You don't tell us what you are doing, so I suspect you aren't doing any of those activities.

Also your clinical experience needs more variety than just emergent medicine. I guess ICU is "less" emergent, but some regular primary care experiences and maybe another speciality will round out your clinical insights a bit.

How is your 2000 hours of being a first responder different than the 2570 EMT hours?

That would be correct, my plan is to volunteer with people experiencing homelessness as well as a highs school outreach program.

Related to shadowing do you think shadowing specialists such as outpatient neurology or GI would also make sense or mainly look for primary care?

First responder was working on a specialized firefighting crew, there was some minor clinical aspect but majority of day to day was related to firefighting which is why I separated it out.

 

[Faha]

I suggest these MD schools with your stats:
Vermont
Quinnipiac
Albany
New York Medical College
Penn State
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
George Washington
Virginia Commonwealth
Eastern Virginia
Wake Forest
NOVA MD
Belmont
Tulane
Alice Walton
TCU
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
Oakland Beaumont
Wayne State
Methodist (when it opens)
Roseman (when it opens)
California University
Loma Linda (if you fit their mission)
Kaiser
UC Davis
UC Riverside (if you are from that region)
For DO schools I suggest these:
TUCOM-CA
WESTERN
TUNCOM
AZCOM
UIWSOM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
DMU-COM
CUSOM
NYITCOM
Touro-NY
MU-COM
PCOM
LECOM